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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

submission guidelines

UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Schalk Neethling

Mar 29 '24

Why Do I Love Open Source?

#discuss #opensource #community

6 min read

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Dharmil Chhadva

Mar 30 '24

Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes

#docker #kubernetes #devops #opensource

6 min read

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Mar 30 '24

FlashFetch: Concurrent, Multi-part file downloader

#discuss #java #opensource #systemdesign

1 min read

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Mar 30 '24

Umbraco Bellissima & Tailwind

#umbraco #cms #opensource #tailwindcss

3 min read

Katie Liu

Mar 30 '24

ChatCraft week 11: Add support for custom providers!

#opensource #react #chatcraft #chatgpt

3 min read

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Colleague Riley

Feb 25 '24

RSGL | Modular header-only cross-platform GUI Library for easily creating GUI software your way!

#c #opensource #gui #singleheader

4 min read

Mar 29 '24

Generating a Custom RSS Feed with Cloudflare Workers: A Step-by-Step Guide

#opensource #rss #cloudflare #typescript

3 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Mar 26 '24

What's the Difference Between New and Beginner Open Source Contributors?

#discuss #opensource #beginners

3 min read

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Steeve

Mar 29 '24

S3 Client against disasters (hacks, fires, catastrophes)

#node #opensource #aws #ovhcloud

4 min read

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arjun

Mar 28 '24

Empowering Local AI: Exploring Ollama LLM Model for Open Source Integration

#ai #ollama #chatbot #opensource

5 min read

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Bogomil Shopov - Бого

Mar 28 '24

Two more events about free and opensource software worth visiting in 2024

#opensource #eventsinyourcity #ai #linux

2 min read

Mar 28 '24

GitHub profile README

#github #opensource #productivity #learning

1 min read

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Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Mar 27 '24

Open-source timepicker components for Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #flowbite #opensource #webdev

3 min read

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Mar 17 '24

Introducing CricLang 🏏: A programming language for cricket enthusiasts

#news #programming #go #opensource

4 min read

Jeff Tao

Mar 28 '24

Developers: Stop Donating Your Work to Cloud Service Providers!

#opensource #saas #cloud #licensing

5 min read

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